Maria AlampiEmerging translator Romanian into Italian

'Translating the work of an up-and-coming young author, I like the sound of that. To translate someone and so help them develop.'

Maria Alampi (1994) was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy. She is a student at the University of Pisa, where she is following a Bachelor’s degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures. She has started to study languages in 2014, with a focus on Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian. Last summer she completed a Traineeship Program in partnership with the Bucharest National Museum of Literature.

Maria Alampi is doing the Bachelor in Foreign Language and Literature at the University of Pisa. She has not finished her degree yet, but outside contact hours she is already working as a translator from Romanian into Italian. It is a language that intrigues her. Although she is still studying she is already looking to the future: ‘Translating the work of an up-and-coming young author, I like the sound of that. To translate the work of a first-time author and to follow their career. To translate someone and so help them develop. I love seeing the end result. The process itself is extremely labour intensive, but once a translation is done it gives a great deal of satisfaction.’

Education​Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​and Literature, University of Pisa